Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1889 — What Rare Stamps Are Worth. [ARTICLE]

What Rare Stamps Are Worth.

The high prices which the rarest specimens of stamps now realize will explain how it is that the trade in forgeries has become what it is in these days. The 1840 English stamp, V. B. (black), with the letters in the upper corners, will easily fetch £lO used and £5 unused. The black stamp, without the letters V. 8., can be sold for one penny and two pennies each. The red penny English stamp heads are not worth much more than waste-paper price. The standing prices are for the rarest stamps: Cabu], complete issues £3OO 2 1847, Mauritius . 200 4 1852, Sandwich Islands 200 3 1856, British Guiana 120 4 1850, British'Guiana 100 7 Natal, first issue 100 5 1860, Cape of Good Hope 40 8 Buenos Ayres 35 Bergedorf 30 6 1856, Canadian 20 10 1850, Brazil, perforated..... « 19 —London Globe.